All Arts
- Playwrights envision a post-pandemic future guided by hope
As part of a new audio series, a Boston theater has commissioned works from playwrights with an eye to a post-pandemic future that includes hope.
- Cover StoryArt in the forbidden zone: Inside the Saudi cultural awakening
Why Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s most culturally restrictive societies, is suddenly embracing art, music, and movies.
- Opera alfresco: How a Seattle singer shares his gift during COVID-19
Seattle Opera tenor Stephen Wall’s at-home concerts are one more example of artists getting creative to share their gifts amid COVID-19 lockdowns.
- Tired of Netflix? Museums and theaters bring the arts home.
As arts organizations figure out next steps amid pandemic closures, some are finding creative ways to embrace fans and newcomers alike.
- What if curators were teens? Museums try it.
As museums look ahead, incorporating a wide range of views – especially those of young curators – is becoming more of a priority.
- An artist embraces her Iranian past and her American present
Iranian American artist Shirin Neshat calls on the experience of being an exile to create compelling images of people living on the margins.
- Top picks: A South Korean thriller, classic anime from Japan, and more
Movies from ‘Parasite’ director Bong Joon-ho and anime legend Satoshi Kon, and music from The Comet Is Coming offer a gateway to international fare.
- First Look'Same stage as the Louvre': Google digitizes Puerto Rican art
This is the first time Google used its high-tech "art camera" to preserve and showcase work from Puerto Rico, where museums are struggling to survive.
- Can art help unite a diverse society? Museums aim to find out.
The reopening of the Museum of Modern Art in New York shows a trend toward diversity, with more attention paid to women and artists of color.
- Please touch the fine art: Museums embrace a hands-on approach
Museums and artists are collaborating with visually impaired individuals to create multisensory exhibits that go beyond sight.
- One woman’s quest: Use art to bring focus to marriage (video)
The beautiful designs of Nushmia Khan’s nikahnamas – Islamic marriage contracts – help draw attention to each partner’s rights and responsibilities.
- Honoring Leonardo da Vinci, the master who never stopped experimenting
This year, museums across Europe are celebrating Leonardo da Vinci’s unparalleled achievements with exhibitions that glimmer with life.
- Top Picks: Sports news sites, Rewinder, and more
The Athletic has quickly become one of the best spots for online sports news. And if you're interested in sports analysis, check out Rewinder.
- Welcome to the museum. Did you bring a spoon?
To generate discussion around exhibits, museums add something unexpected: food. In Washington, the Hirshhorn serves up Thai food – and protest art.
- Top Picks: Shuri’s debut, Vampire Weekend’s latest, and more
Critic Candace McDuffie on the ‘Avengers’ spinoff comic featuring Shuri from ‘Black Panther,’ Vampire Weekend’s album ‘Father of the Bride,’ and more.
- Top Picks: ‘A Silent Voice,’ ‘Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,’ and more
And check out ‘We Are Witnesses: Becoming an American,’ a short film series that breaks away from the partisan debate about immigration.
- Top Picks: ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?,’ Karen O’s ‘Lux Prima,’ and more
Yannis Philippakis’ voice is immaculate on Foals’ fifth album ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Part 1,’ there's a new version of ‘Les Misérables,’ and more top picks.
- Through an African lens, ‘a story for the world’
Priya Ramrakha, one of the first African photographers for Time and Life magazines, was an insider to the independence era of the 1950s and ’60s.
- Top Picks: Dido's 'Still on My Mind,' PBS's 'Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People,' and more
The film 'Burning' is available on DVD and Blu-ray, producer Andrew Huang makes enjoyable, interesting music using fireworks, shaving supplies, and Legos, and more top picks.
- Top Picks: 'The Guilty,' 'Diana Ross: Her Life, Love, and Legacy,' and more
Nils Landgren has single-handedly made playing the trombone cool, the Criterion Channel is the Criterion Collection’s first native video streaming site, and more top picks.